Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024
9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Burton Barr Library
1221 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Keynote at Arizona Jewish Historical Society
122 E. Culver Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004 (next door to Burton Barr)
The Murray and Sabina Zemel z"l Educators Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide aims to aid Arizona teachers in building programs, developing curricula and sharing best practices in educating on the Holocaust and other genocides.
Please join us for a free all-day professional development opportunity for teachers.
Benefits for Participants:
Participants will obtain a certificate for CE units
35 participants will be eligible to receive funds to hire substitute teachers thanks to an endowment from the Helios Foundation on a first come first served basis
Free lunch
For more information, please email info@phxha.com.
Schedule
Teaching the Holocaust in Social Studies/English/LA Classrooms
Kim Klett & Ashley Crose
Provided free of cost
More information to come.
Teaching the Holocaust & Other Genocides
(Rwanda, Armenia, & Darfur)
Accompanying in times of great peril: Stories from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the journey towards healing
Speaker: Carl Wilkens, Rescuer during the Rwandan Genocide
About the Keynote: The US Embassy ordered Carl and Teresa Wilkens to evacuate Rwanda along with thousands of other expatriates and UN soldiers. They chose not to obey. Teresa did take their children to safety however Carl stayed throughout the 3-month genocide. While witnessing the horrors of more than one million innocent people being slaughtered, he worked with Rwandan colleagues to rescue and bring aid to those targeted for extermination.
Wilkens will be exploring stories from this time as well as the 30-year journey since. He will be focusing specifically on what “the role of accompanying” looks like during times of great violence as well as healing.
This event is sponsored by:
Past Years
2023
2023 Theme: Resistance
October 24, 2023 | 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Burton Barr Central Library & Arizona Jewish Historical Society
2022
October 25, 2022 | 10 a.m.
Coor Hall & Mirabella at ASU